Moammar Khadafy

Moammar Khadafy was captured cowering in a drainage pipe after 42 years as the country’s dictator. Hours after Khadafy’s death earlier today, questions remain surrounding the circumstances as footage appeared to show he’d been captured alive after being shot several times.

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Moammar Khadafy’s final moments showed him struggling to stay alive, bleeding from several gunshot wounds, as an angry crowd surrounded him and dragged him to the back of a pick-up truck.

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Moammar Khadafy is held on a truck by NTC fighters in Sirte.

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Khadafy was captured cowering in a drainage pipe after 42 years as the country’s dictator. “He called us rats, but look where we found him,” said Ahmed Al Sahati, a 27-year-old government fighter, standing next to two stinking drainage pipes under a six-lane highway.

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Moammar Khadafy, covered in blood, is pulled from a truck by NTC fighters in Sirte. Khadafy was killed on Thursday as Libya’s new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over.

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President Obama shakes hands with Moammar Khadafy before a dinner at the G8 summit in L’Aquila in 2009. Khadapfy died of wounds suffered as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte.

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Moammar Khadafy with two of his female body guards on his arrival at Ciampino Airport in Rome, Italy on Aug. 29, 2010.

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Moammar Khadafy saluting during a celebration to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the closing of the US military bases in Libya.

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Moammar Khadafy seen at the Arab Summit in Sirte, Libya on March 27, 2010.

Moammar Khadafy gestures from a car in Tripoli, after a meeting with a delegation of five African leaders seeking to mediate in Libya’s conflict in this April 10, 2011 photo.

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Moammar Khadafy is seen during prayers after delivering a speech in the city of Benghazi, Libya on Feb. 25, 2010.

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Lybian leader Moammar Khadafy flashing the victory sign as he arrives for a round table session at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy. Reports out of Libya estimate that several dozen more people were killed 19 February 2010 during the fourth day of protests against the regime of leader Moammar Khadafy. Protests centered on the north-eastern city of Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city after the capital Tripoli. The northern coastal city of Misurata was also the scene of demonstrations , the National Conference of the Libyan Opposition (NCLO) said.

Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy delivers his speech during a ceremony to mark the Italy-Libya friendship day at the Salvo D’Acquisto Barracks, in Rome, Italy.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy during the celebrations commemorating the 41st Anniversary of the Libyan Revolution in Tripoli, Libya, September 1, 2010. Moammar Khadafy came to power in a coup that overthrew the Libyan monarchy in 1969.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy looks on during a session of the Africa/EU summit in Tripoli, Libya, November 29, 2010.

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Libya’s leader Moammar Khadafy attends the closing of the Extraordinary Arab League Leaders Summit in Sirte, Libya, October 9, 2010.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy during the second day of a gathering in Sebha, 700km south of Tripoli, Libya, marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the officers group that mounted the Libyan Revolution.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy during the second day of a gathering in Sebha, 700km south of Tripoli, Libya, marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the officers group that mounted the Libyan Revolution.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy attending the opening session of the 2nd Conference of the Forum of Kings, Sultans, Princes, Sheikhs and Mayors of Africa in Tripoli, Libya.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy watching a military parade as part of the ceremonies marking the 40th Anniversary of the Libyan Revolution in Tripoli, Libya on September 1, 2009.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy gestures at supporters during a ceremony marking the birth of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed in Tripoli, Libya on February 13, 2011.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy(C) leans on the shoulders of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (centre R) and President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh (centre L) as they laugh during a photocall before the second Afro-Arab Summit in Sirte October 10, 2010.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy attends the closing session of the Arab League summit in Sirte October 9, 2010.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy speaks about the ouster of Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on Libyan TV in this still image taken from video, January 15, 2011. Khadafy said neighbouring Tunisia is suffering bloodshed and lawlessness because its people were in too much of a rush to get rid of their president. Ben Ali, Tunisian leader for 23 years, was forced to step down after weeks of protests. His overthrow has reverberated around other countries in the Arab world with long-serving leaders.

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Moammar Khadafy during the opening session of the 15th African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy speaks during a ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the evacuation of the American military bases in the country, in Tripoli, in this June 12, 2010 file photo.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy attends the 64th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy takes notes as US President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy at his seat during the 64th General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy gives the thumb’s up before walking to the podium from his seat, a break from United Nations protocol, during the 64th General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy walks to the podium from his seat, a break from United Nations protocol during the 64th General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly.

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Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy holds the Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court while delivering an address to the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy pretends to rip a Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice as he addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy gestures as he addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly, at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy reads his notes as he addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly.

Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, in his first ever address to the United Nations, on Wednesday accused the veto-wielding powers of the Security Council of betraying the principles of the U.N. charter.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy gestures as he reads from scribed notes during his address at the 64th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N.

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Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy holds a Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice as he addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York. Khadafy, in his first ever address to the United Nations, on Wednesday accused the veto-wielding powers of the Security Council of betraying the principles of the U.N. charter.

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Moammar Khadafy gestures with Syrian President Bashar Assad during the opening session of the Arab Summit in Damascus, Syria on March 29, 2008. Moammar Khadafy dictatorship couldn’t have existed without a sea of dictators all around, protecting each other and working together to silence dissident voices. Khadafy himself saw collapse was inevitable once allies began to fall. He told fellow leaders at a 2008 Arab League summit “your turn is next,” following the toppling of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.

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Moammar Khadafy is driven by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt in this file from August 1990.